2007/9/10, Adalbert Prokop <adalbert.prokop@xxxxxx>: > Hello! > > I'd like to propose an enhancement for the Firefox's start script. It > includes two changes: > > 1. Give the user the choice which version of Firefox is started, > especially on 64-bit architectures. > 2. Use alsa-oss to allow Firefox (or its plugins) play sound. AFAIK they > use OSS now, which will fail in most cases, because /dev/dsp is almost > constantly in use by arts/esd/whatever. > > Motivation > ========== > I lately installed F7 on an AMD64 machine and had some problems with > firefox plugins, because most of them don't exist for 64 bit > architectures. I decided to use the 32 bit version, but it's not easy to > achieve it, because /usr/bin/firefox alwas uses the output of uname -m to > choose the version. so the fix is to get the plugins properly working with x86_64? workarounds will only slow down solutions because of the lack of motiviation to properly push fixes instead of working around with hacks. regards, Rudolf Kastl > > And alsa-oss simply because I was sorry either to have a soundless browser > or to change scripts. > > How to do it > ============ > I have attached a patch, which will do what I suggested. It uses two > environment variables: MOZ_ARCH and MOZ_AOSS. > > If MOZ_ARCH is set, it's value is used to determine the firefox version, > if it's not set, uname -m is called like before. > > Simmilarly MOZ_AOSS could contain the path to the aoss application. If not > set, it would default to /usr/bin/aoss. If set to "none", alsa-oss would > be ommited completely. > > Both variables could be set in /etc/profile.d to provide system wide > settings. > > > What do you think about these enhancements? > > -- > Bye, > Adalbert > > It is said that the lonely eagle flies to the mountain peaks while the > lowly ant crawls the ground, but cannot the soul of the ant soar as high > as the eagle? > > -- > fedora-devel-list mailing list > fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list > > -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
